Chart of the week: routine skills are on the way out
From the soon to be published "PISA 2012 Results: Creative Problem Solving", OECD
What’s wrong with TED talks – hint: quite a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yo5cKRmJaf0 I have almost certainly fulminated in various asides against TED talks on this blog, and even one full on cri de coeur against retail...
Could the press gallery please score Bronwyn Bishop?
Much of the time, the public can make up its own mind on public events once it get a decent helping of facts; the theatre...
German Film Festival
Here are the top picks from the German Film Festival in Melbourne, with the full schedule below. The Phantom|Das Phantom 06.00pm Friday 28 March @ Palace...
The Pell Principle: Mission will trump morality
The current inquiry into institutional child abuse holds some interesting lessons about the nature of religion, which I'll stay clear of here. But it also...
Think tanks – Influence isn’t always about offering practical solutions
Many people say the best way to influence government is to give policymakers practical solutions to problems they care about. According to this perspective, academics...
1954: The no-spin zone
This doco is worth watching for its own sake. (Why are media organisations so dumb and unprepared to allow embedding of their videos - given...